Samza Articles

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    Bridging batch and stream processing for the Recruiter usage statistics dashboard

    July 14, 2020

    Co-authors: Khai Tran and Steve Weiss Batch and streaming computations are often combined together in the Lambda architecture, but carry the cost of maintaining two different code bases for the same logic. We have previously shared on the blog a behind-the-scenes look at our approach into enabling the seamless translation of declarative batch code into streaming...

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    Using virtual private clusters for testing Apache Samza

    June 20, 2019

    If Apache Kafka is the lifeblood of all nearline processing at LinkedIn, then Apache Samza is the beating heart pumping that blood around. Samza at LinkedIn is provided as a managed stream processing service where applications bring their logic (leveraging the wide variety of Samza APIs), while the service handles the hosting, managing, and operations of the...

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    Samza 1.0: Stream Processing at Massive Scale

    November 27, 2018

    We are pleased to announce today the release of Samza 1.0, a significant milestone in the history of the project. Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework that we developed at LinkedIn in 2013. Samza became a top-level Apache project in 2014. Fast-forward to 2018, and we currently have over 3,000 applications in production leveraging Samza at...

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    Concourse: Generating Personalized Content Notifications in...

    May 25, 2018

    Co-authors: Vivek Nelamangala and PJ Xiao Introduction to Notifications Social media are computer-mediated platforms that facilitate...

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    Samza Aeon: Latency Insights for Asynchronous One-Way Flows

    April 19, 2018

    Co-authors: Max Wolffe and Akhilesh Gupta Introduction You can’t fix something if you don’t know there’s a problem. Measuring and...

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    New Analytics for Sharing on LinkedIn: See Who’s Viewed...

    November 1, 2016

    Coauthor: Bharath Kumarasubramanian If you’re sharing content on LinkedIn, you’re positioning yourself as a thought leader among the...